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Handwriting Cues

How you can help at home: Reinforce proper letter formation by writing lists and notes together with your second-grader.

Writing Letters

How you can help at home: Writing a letter using a word-processing program helps your child build writing skills.

Accordion Book Fun

How you can help at home: Make a homemade book with your child and build his reading and writing skills.

Take a Reading Journey

In this activity, your child will read about people and their customs in other countries.

Drink it in

When you use glasses of water as musical instruments, your child learns about pitch.

Eight tips for raising tech-savvy kids

Help your child learn to use technology by integrating it into your home.

Make an Apple Pie

This fun story has it all: reading, geography, baking and pie! Enjoy this learning activity with your child.

Be a Travel Agent

How you can help at home: Have your child plan a real or virtual trip.

Develop a Mental Image

How you can help at home: Have your child make a mental image of a passage that has been read aloud.

Design a Book Jacket

How you can help at home: In this activity your child designs a book jacket to summarize the main ideas of a story he has read.

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